Amalfi

Italy

Amalfi is a town in a dramatic natural setting below steep cliffs on Italy’s southwest coast. Between the 9th and 11th centuries, it was the seat of a powerful maritime republic. The Arab-Norman Sant'Andrea cathedral at the heart of town, with its striped Byzantine facade, survives from this era. The Museo Arsenale Amalfi is a medieval shipyard-turned-exhibition space.
If you take one of the small roads up the hills on the outskirts of Amalfi you will get some fantastic views down the Amalfi Coast and out over the Tyrrhenian Sea.